the host organisation does app analytics. so we spun that around, took their visual language and made event analytics. this involved animating around an increasingly annotated timeline. data wrangler, designer, network drives and shared spreadsheets… and me pushing keynote harder than i had in a long time.
(photo credit: tim mitchell)
media and arts technology colleague saul albert put out a call for help for the conversational rollercoaster. happy to help as a last-hurrah for time in the same research group, but more significantly it’s an event conceived to take interaction and audiences seriously.
cribbed from an email, my quick take after was –
– I could show passers-by a scientific process happening live. A production line, almost.
– With the talkaoke table, not only did we have a source of conversation, but something that passers by had to navigate past.
– Watch enough people come past, you start to spot patterns
– Capture those moments, pore over the detail, and soon you can…
– Build a “theory of passing the talkaoke table without getting pulled in”
– Laws that clearly aren’t like the laws of physics, but for this specific situation do have similar predictive power.
– Why is it that they work?
The conversational rollercoaster: Conversation analysis and the public science of talk
How does talk work, and can we engage the public in a dialogue about the scientific study of talk? This article presents a history, critical evaluation and empirical illustration of the public science of talk. We chart the public ethos of conversation analysis that treats talk as an inherently public phenomenon and its transcribed recordings as public data. We examine the inherent contradictions that conversation analysis is simultaneously obscure yet highly cited; it studies an object that people understand intuitively, yet routinely produces counter-intuitive findings about talk. We describe a novel methodology for engaging the public in a science exhibition event and show how our ‘conversational rollercoaster’ used live recording, transcription and public-led analysis to address the challenge of demonstrating how talk can become an informative object of scientific research. We conclude by encouraging researchers not only to engage in a public dialogue but also to find ways to actively engage people in taking a scientific approach to talk as a pervasive, structural feature of their everyday lives.
Albert, S., Albury, C., Alexander, M., Harris, M. T., Hofstetter, E., Holmes, E. J. B., & Stokoe, E. (2018). The conversational rollercoaster: Conversation analysis and the public science of talk. Discourse Studies, 20(3), 397–424. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445618754571
PDF available from Loughborough University Institutional Repository
to chartres to help katharine vega turn dreams into immersive video. what, years before, had started as sharing some drawings, had got stuck as powerpoint-and-pull-down-screen. kate wanted to ‘vj’ it live to a narration, and she was right. cue me getting onto eurostar with a resolume deck and luggage full of scrim and projector…
the work kate and her peers are doing is actually right up my street. putting the context aside, the basic idea of a feedback loop with those in the room is the crux of the more interesting work i’ve done: interpreting talk, reifying into media, re-presenting back.
diary | 07 jul 2018 | tagged: vj · video-out · resolume · engaging audiences
been working on audience interaction for volta, and this is a happy moment: our twitch extension in production, publicly available, working not just on desktop but mobile too.
just as an artist can link to up a midi controller to control their volta world, they can link to audience control. i.e. if you have a button in volta, you can give that button to your audience.
diary | 21 mar 2023 | tagged: volta · engaging audiences · code
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